Grantland always felt like a respite from (if not a reaction against) the aggressive disposability of most online writing about pop culture. The Ringer is a capitulation to it.

JesuKristaps!

This is the simplest, clearest, best relationship advice I’ve read or received in a long time. That sense of safety in walking into your own door — and the lonesomeness of losing it, even for a day — it’s a thing I didn’t realize I’d felt until I read this. Thank you.

Do you have a ballpark idea of how long Deadspin’s going to be serving up these “X days after collapsing on a golf course, John Daly did Y” stories? I’m trying to project when they’ll go from “irritatingly boring” to “utter waste of all our time, writer included.”

Jalen’s been trying to have it both ways on this for years. He runs Webber down publicly whenever he can and then laments Webber’s refusal to be buddy-buddy with him. I’ve grown to like Rose a lot — chiefly because of his podcast — but he’s been a hypocrite about Webber all along.

My favorite shitty Simmons device: his persistent use of his own opinions to support his own opinions. “How unbelievable is Anthony Davis? So unbelievable that I wrote this last month: (700 words from a previous column about how unbelievable Anthony Davis is).”

Clever choice of stats in the NC State comment. Yes, Mike Glennon threw more picks than anyone else in 2011 and 2012. He also threw the 6th-most touchdowns in the nation over that span. Not nearly the trainwreck Hinton suggests, and most NC State fans have let go of whatever grudges they had over the Wilson-Glennon…

My wife and I are looking at buying our first house together (although I previously bought one on my own). We've gone back and forth on seeking a 15- vs. 30-year mortgage. She likes the shorter loan term, but I'd prefer a lower payment. Can you briefly lay out the pros and cons of each? Thanks!

"The dagger three was once a specialty of Manu Ginobili's," Ley writes. That "was once" refers to a long-forgotten time when a spry young Ginobili was still capable of burying damaging threes. That time? Seven days ago, in game one of this series.

Has anyone seen Manny and Stevie Wonder in the same room at the same time lately?

I'm still waiting for Rembert to say or write something interesting about a topic other than himself.